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It's still early days for 'delulu,' but this trisyllabic word - 'di-loo-loo' - that packs a punch of the lu from 'delusional' is doing the heavy spin cycle these days..
While delulu did start off as a 'deruru' - our coinage for a 'derogatory jibe' - to make fun of people who believe in ridiculously impossible things, like, say, the prime minister joining the Congress, or all Indians appreciating irony, somewhere down the line it became a do-to inspirational thing..
It still retains its frivolous, fun edge which it started off with, the K-pop fan community using it to describe delusional fan behaviour..
